Ways the Financial Services Industry Is Adapting to Customer Expectations in 2019

Financial ServicesAs both customer expectations and the ways businesses work to earn brand loyalty in 2019 change, it’s important that all industries work to change how they approach customers. This is even more true in the financial services industry, as they work so closely with their customers and handle sensitive information. Adapting to customer expectations can be difficult, especially if you don’t know what those expectations are. However, it doesn’t have to be. Here are a few ways that companies in the financial services industry can adapt to the changing landscape of customer expectations.

Using omnichannel communication

One of the most important ways any business can ensure their customers are happy is by making communication among all parties super convenient. If all of your voice messaging systems are automated, people might feel they’re not getting the personal assistance they need. But hiring an army of customer service representatives is expensive and not particularly. Continue reading

How China’s Mobile Ecosystems Are Making Banks Obsolete

Giant Chinese tech companies have bypassed credit cards and banks to create their own low-cost digital payment systems.

paymentsEllen Brown – The US credit card system siphons off excessive amounts of money from merchants, who must raise their prices to cover this charge. In a typical $100 credit card purchase, only $97.25 goes to the seller. The rest goes to banks and processors. But who can compete with Visa and MasterCard?

It seems China’s new mobile payment ecosystems can. According to a May 2018 article in Bloomberg titled “Why China’s Payment Apps Give U.S. Bankers Nightmares”:

The future of consumer payments may not be designed in New York or London but in China. There, money flows mainly through a pair of digital ecosystems that blend social media, commerce and banking—all run by two of the world’s most valuable companies. That contrasts with the U.S., where numerous firms feast on fees from handling and processing payments. Western bankers and credit-card executives who travel to China keep returning with the same anxiety: Payments can happen cheaply and easily without them.

The nightmare for the US financial industry is that a major technology company – whether one from China or a US giant such as Amazon or Facebook – might replicate the success of the Chinese mobile payment systems, cutting banks out. Continue reading

Disruptive Technologies In Financial Services [Video]

Two days after President Obama announced to the nation that we would essentially be going to war with ISIS in Iraq and Syria — a $7.2 billion Army intelligence contract was signed with 12 of the biggest private military contractors on the planet. We also learned on Thursday that US Attorney General Eric Holder is stepping down from his current post and speculation as to who his replacement will be is flying! Erin weighs in.

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Then, Erin sits down with Raoul Pal, founder of The Global Macro Investor newsletter and Real Vision Television, to talk about the problems with finance news and the democratization of information. Pal is an advocate of disruptive technology in financial services and also has a thing or two to say about the global macro investment climate. Continue reading